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I've tried CK under Wine and it works out of the box! (Wine 0.9.9)

Well, almost. It loads and runs fine, plays fine. *Appears* to save games fine, but when you want to load a saved game, it doesn't appear in the list. It's there on the filesystem, but the game doesn't recognise it, even though it's the same copy of the game which wrote it a few moments ago. 3rd-party utils like CKL also choke on the saves written under Wine. Even rebooting back into Windoze doesn't make the saves usable.

I'm using a normal FAT32 partition mounted rw, so I can't see any obvious reason why it would write the save file successfully and yet somehow corrupt it so it's not loadable. Does anyone know if CK does funny things with savefile timestamps or something? Maybe that would explain it.

Any hints appreciated,

CC
 
Wine is not a supported Operating system for CK.
I will leave this open incase others wish to comment.
 
Castellon said:
Wine is not a supported Operating system for CK.
I will leave this open incase others wish to comment.
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Don't worry, I'm not expecting official support. Just interested to hear if any other users have tried running it under Wine - it works flawlessly, apart from the save game issue.
 
okay
You could search though as I recall other threads on the subject. Search either Manually, hey just be lucky this is not a busy subforum. :) or you could try google advanced search,
 
First post from a forums newbie :)

Installation of CK works just fine under the latest wine (v0.9.11). Patching works out of the box as well. I have not experienced the problem described here but I am not running the game on a different partition/filesystem. The game runs just fine in it's latest guise (1.15) without using any Windows libraries (I don't own a copy of Windows).

I have tried CK under wine running on Ubuntu Linux, Debian Sid and Fedora Core 5 without problems. As a hint, people running any Paradox game under wine should set the WINEDEBUG variable to -all so as to avoid debug info output and speed up the game's execution (this is true for any wine program). To do this, type in a terminal (for bash terminals):

export WINEDEBUG=-all
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Paradox Entertainment/Crusader Kings
wine Crusaders.exe

I have run several Paradox games in the last couple of years under wine with great success, specifically CK, Hearts of Iron and EU2. Although I am sure there are only a couple of us, it is great to be able to enjoy Paradox games under GNU/Linux. Cudos to Paradox for not including lame copy-protection in the games (at least the ones I have tried).

I have been watching the forums and the amazing add-ons to Paradox games for ages but never had any reason to register and post an entry. I guess I found one :rolleyes:

PS. Come to think of it, a solution might be to install the game in the default location on your C drive (that is .wine/drive_c/ in the linux filesystem) and see if that helps. I am pretty certain that some of the file attributes/ownership do not map between the unix/windows filesystems. I mean the game should work out of the box.. I have done this several times. Another thing to try if you experience a non-starter (black screen) is to delete/rename ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Paradox Entertainment/Crusader Kings/avi/binkplay.exe. This does not allow the initial movie to kick in BUT at the same time avoids problems associated with XV acceleration and WINE opening the binkplay window (don't ask :) ). Good luck and I will be monitoring this for a few days if anyone wants to follow up.

magnate said:
I've tried CK under Wine and it works out of the box! (Wine 0.9.9)

Well, almost. It loads and runs fine, plays fine. *Appears* to save games fine, but when you want to load a saved game, it doesn't appear in the list. It's there on the filesystem, but the game doesn't recognise it, even though it's the same copy of the game which wrote it a few moments ago. 3rd-party utils like CKL also choke on the saves written under Wine. Even rebooting back into Windoze doesn't make the saves usable.

I'm using a normal FAT32 partition mounted rw, so I can't see any obvious reason why it would write the save file successfully and yet somehow corrupt it so it's not loadable. Does anyone know if CK does funny things with savefile timestamps or something? Maybe that would explain it.

Any hints appreciated,

CC
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